Driveway paint

Since it is just me and the boys for the last few weeks, we have be doing lots of great activities outside.  The other day we decided it was a great day to paint our new driveway!  It has been SUPER hot here and I knew this was going to be messy, but the plan was to play in the sprinkler after! 

Making the paint was super easy.  1/2 cup of water, 1/2 cup of cornstarch and food colouring to make your colours!  If you have ever made goop, it is basically a runny version of goop!  I made 5 colours for the boys and set them up outside with paint brushes. I knew Monkey would love this, but wasn't sure if Logey would try and paint or just stick his hands in and pour out the paint!

Started off great.  They were both painting beautiful pictures all over the driveway! As you can see Logey was LOVING it!

Monkey was having fun too!  

We stayed pretty clean which is REALLY shocking for my boys...but then of course, it happened.  Logey stuck his hands in, and it turned into finger painting the driveway.  Since it was a goopy type feeling Logey just couldn't get enough of it!  And he was a MESS!

I forgot to take a picture of what the driveway ended up looking like when the boys where done...but there was one really cool thing they learned.  We decided to pour out all the rest of the paint onto the driveway when they were done painting.  Because of the cornstarch it had started to solidify and came out of the containers almost like a dough consistency, but as soon as it touched the warm (HOT) pavement, it melted down into a liquid again until it was completely dry.  We got a pretty decent rain storm that night, and it is still all there on the driveway, completely in tack!  Which makes me wonder....how long will it be there!!!

GOOOOOP!!!!

To go along with our science experiments this week, we whipped up a good ol' batch of GOOP! Monkey loves goop.  So simple, some type of container, corn starch and water...and of course we had to make ours GREEN.  (We did 2 cups corn starch, 1 cup water...then added a little more water because it was pretty tough to scoop up)

This time I let Monkey add his cars into the mix.  He ALWAYS has hot wheels with him, and wants to make sure they are incorporated into every activity we do.  But this actually turned out to be way better than I thought. 

When he dropped the cars in, they began to sink, and we watch until they completely disappeared.  Then Monkey had to figure out how to get them out.  He had to figure out that he had to keep his hands wrapped around them to warm the goop so it became a liquid.  If he tried to fast it was just impossible to get them out.

It was interesting to watch him try to figure out why it was so hard when moving fast, like trying to hit it.  But then if he just slowly squished his hands in and picked it up, it would be a "goopy" 

Even Logey-Bear got his hands in there with this one (just didn't get pictures of it because I couldn't risk him shoving a big handful right into his mouth!  Some times us Moms just need 3 hands!)

Goop can be a little messy (especially in our house) but once it dries, it is super easy to just sweep up.